The better plan

Gov. Jon Corzine, in his State of the State speech, challenged legislators, saying, "If there is a better plan . . . put it on the table." Here is the better plan: Cut state spending. Corzine's proposed freeze of the state budget doesn't go nearly far enough, and his plan to monetize our toll roads is more smoke and mirrors, trading one form of debt for another. I am a 60-year-old lifelong New Jersey resident. I remember a state that had good schools, even in the cities, roads that were the envy of the country and no state sales or income tax! Thank you, politicians of both parties, for messing up a good thing.
The governor said that an alternative to the new borrowing would be a $5 billion cut in state spending, which would represent 15 percent of the state budget, but equated the chances of that ever happening with the likelihood of pigs flying over the Statehouse. Maybe it isn't so unlikely at all. Maybe all we need to do is elect legislators who are not Democrats or Republicans.